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2nd Announcement of a Symposium in Washington, D.C.
TWO YEARS OF SCIENCE WITH CHANDRA
September 5-7, 2001 at the Washington Plaza Hotel
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>>> Reminder:
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>>> Early Registration Deadline is only 3 WEEKS AWAY !!!
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>>> Register by May 21, 2001 and SAVE $50
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The meeting will highlight key science results from the first two
years of operation of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Virtually all
topics in X-ray astronomy will be covered, including (but not limited
to) stellar corona, supernova remnants, high resolution AGN
spectroscopy, black holes, neutron stars, normal galaxies, galaxy
clusters, resolution of the X-ray background, gamma-ray bursts, etc.
Contributions covering recent results from XMM-Newton and other X-ray
observatories will also be presented.
Registration and Abstract Forms, and more information
can be found on the Symposium Web page:
http://asc.harvard.edu/symposium_2001/
The list of review talks and the speakers is included below. The
schedule allows for 15 minute contributed talks. These will be chosen
from the abstract submitted before the June 15th deadline. The posters
will be displayed during 3 days of the meeting.
Invited Speakers
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Lars Bildsten Neutron Star X-ray Binaries
Niel Brandt Results from the Chandra Deep Survey of the HDF-N Region
Andy Fabian Cooling Flows and Clusters
Ian George Grating Spectra of NGC 3783 and AGN
Riccardo Giacconi The Cosmic X-ray Background and the Chandra Southern Deep
Field
Manuel Guedel X-ray Emission from Stellar Corona
Una Hwang Supernova Remnants
Andy King Ultra-Luminous Binaries in External Galaxies
Ramesh Narayan Black Holes in XRB and Galactic Cores
Andrea Prestwich Nearby Spiral Galaxies
Rita Sambruna The Physics of Extragalactic Jets in the Chandra Era
Kim Weaver The Starburst/AGN Connection and Outflows
Ed Weiler Future NASA Astrophysics Missions
Ray White Diffuse Gas and X-ray Binary Populations in
Elliptical Galaxies
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Early Registration May 21
Abstract Deadline June 15
Final Registration July 15
Final Program August 6
Symposium Sept. 5-7
This meeting is organized by the Chandra X-ray Center, Marshall Space
Flight Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and the University of
Maryland. This meeting will also be the 12th Maryland Annual
Astrophysics Conference.